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- An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
- Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he…
- The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision,…
- For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
- Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
- To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
- Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
- Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular…
- Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions…
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